Pt 1. State of the art on risk assessment. Assessment of risk and accident impacts related to dangerous goods transport in a dense urbanized area ; Hazardous materials transportation: a literature review and an annotated bibliography ; Hazardous materials transportation by road: trends and problems in risk assessment and emergency planning ; Safety in hazardous material road transportation: state of the art and emerging problems -- pt. 2. Risk management and control. Finding solutions to mixed route strategies for transporting hazardous materials ; The trade-offs in rail-truck intermodal transportation of hazardous materials: an illustrative case study ; Modeling a real time mobile information system for Haz/Mat telegeomonitoring ; Sustainable distribution of petrol products to service stations based on demand forecast, inventory and transportation costs ; A GIS-based multi-objective travel planner for hazardous material transport in the urban area of Milan -- pt. 3. Risk assessment for coupled critical infrastructures ; The Ukrainian response system for event of accidents in radioactive material transportation ; An integrated system for the hazardous materials transport in a sub-regional scale area ; The challenges of transport of radioactive materials and waste in Albania ; Thermoeconomical optimization in hazardous materials transport on roads flowing towards one critical infrastructure -- Conclusions. Dangerous goods transportation and related research challenges in the human and societal dynamics.